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The SBA Administrator

MARIA CONTRERAS-SWEET

Maria Contreras-Sweet became the 24th Administrator of the U.S. Small
Business Administration and a member of President Obama’s Cabinet on
April 7, 2014. She is a successful business executive, entrepreneur, and
state cabinet official. Throughout her career, she has been a champion of
diversity, access to capital and equal opportunity for all Americans.

Blogs by the Administrator

If you own or operate one of the millions of independently-owned restaurants and bars that are the job creators and pillars of our nation’s Main Streets and neighborhoods, invite your neighbors... Read More

Small businesses need investors, and investors need small businesses. These are facts of life in the business world. And just like the chicken and the egg, you can’t have one without the other... Read More

It was almost 100 years ago, on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified and women in America won the right to vote. As history (or her story) tells us, this... Read More